Belt-keeper



NiTED STATES ATENT OFFICE,

ELIZ 7. DAVISON, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

BELT-KEEPER.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 558,263, dated April 14, 1896.

Application filed February 17, 1896. Serial No. 579,513. (No model.)

T0 aZlVu/hom it ntay conce'n:

Be it known that I, ELIZA W. DAvisoN, residing at Brooklyn, Kings county, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Belt Keepers, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

My invention relates to improvements in .devices for maintaining ladies7 belts in position upon the waist, and has for its object more particularly to provide a neat, simple, and efficient device whereby to hold the-belt attached to the skirt at the back, and thereby prevent the belt slipping up and exposing the waistband of the skirt.

The object above set forth I am enabled to attain by means of my invention, which consists in the novel details of construction hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims. l

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, wherein like letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a perspective 'view of my improved belt-keeper as it appears upon the belt. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the blank out of which the keeper is formed. Fig. 3 is a back view of the keeper; and Fig. 4 is a perspective sectional View, taken on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3, showing the manner of attaching the keeper to the waistband of the skirt to hold the belt in position.

In said drawings, A designates the keeper, which is formed of a single piece of metal and comprises' the two Vertical sections B B', which may be of ornamental outline and suitablyornamented, and a horizontal section O, which holds the two Vertical seetions B B' properly connected at the inner side of the belt.

D D' represent the lower ends of the Vertical sections B B', which are turned rearwardly and up, and E E' the upper ends of the said Vertical Sections, which, together with the horizontal section C, are turned rearwardly and down until the said ends E E' overlap the edges of the upturned lower ends D D'. Thereupon said end portions E E' are again turned rearwardly and up to form the hook members F F', respectively, near the lower edge of the keeper.

G represents a belt, made of any suitable material, and II the waistband of the skirt, which is here shown provided with slits a a, made similar in form to the ordinary buttonholes, into which the hook members F F' of the keeper project to hold the same and the belt G attached to the skirt.

It is obvious that instead of the slits a a in the waistband H eyes or loops might be sewed to the outer side thereof to receive the hook members F F', and thereby serve the same purpose.

There the keeper is intended to be permanently carried upon the belt, the upper edges of the ends D D' may be soldered or otherwise secured to the under sides of the ends E E',which overlap the edges of the ends D D, respectively; but where the keeper is intended to be used upon the belt occasionally only7 these ends should be left free to form an opening through which the belt may be conveniently passed when applyin g or removing the keeper.

It will be observed that while my device is primarily designed to maintain the belt in position, it may also be used in connection with a belt worn to support a garment. To this latter end, however, a number of the de- Vices must be employed to accomplish the purpose.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As an article of manufacture, a beltkeeper formed of a strip of metal having its lower end turned rearwardly and up, its upper end bifurcated and turned rearwardly and down and overlapping the upturned lower end, and said bifurcated upper ends turned upwardly to form hook members, substantially as specified.

2. As an article of manufacture, a beltkeeper form'ed of a strip of metal comprising a slide consisting of two Vertical Sections having their lower ends bent rearwardly and up, their'upper ends bent rearwardly and down and overlapping the upturned lower ends, and then bent rearwardly and up again to form hook members,land a horizontal connecting-section for said Vertical section, substantially as specified.

3. As an article of manufacture, a belt- IOO koeper eomprsng the Vertical Sections B, B' having the upturned lower ends D, D', the downturned upper ends E, E' overlapping the upturned lower ends D, D' respeetively, and terminatng in upwardly projeetng hook members F, F', and the horizontal section C conneetng the Vertical Sections B, B' at the l'eal', substantally as shown and deserbed.

Signed at the city of New York, in the County and State of New York, this 15th day of Feb- 10 ruary, 1896.

ELIZA XV. DAVISON.

Titnessesu GUSTAVE DIETERIOH, JOHN KEHLENBECK. 

